Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! primitive stool both potters died in 2005

both potters died in 2005

but everything else seems to be in place

And quite a wonderful collection I think it is

these are quintessential examples of pottery made by the women of the Shipibo

Antique Wooden Box with Carved Hieroglyphics! primitive stool both potters died in 2005I'm not quite sure how the surface of this box came to be so, but it makes me super happy that it did, and I feel as if it might just hold the secrets of the universe! (My guess it that a child many years ago went to work on it with a sharp tool, yielding a mix of letters and numbers and symbols that, together with a few gauges and a bit of paint here and there add up to a pretty fantastic surface. The sides and bottom are much less carved up; the